Hello Dr. Hadden,
I am Jennifer Liedkie, the laboratory specialist at the Rochester
Institute of Technology. I was doing a search on carrot callus culture
and came upon a response you had written regarding your method of
culturing carrot callus.
You wrote: "I used to use the carrot callus culture medium, but
have found a much simpler approach. They obtain the aseptic carrot
slices as always, transfer 6 - 8 of them to a sterile Petri dish lined
with moistened filter paper. Instead of bothering with callus medium, I
have them moisten the filter paper with sterile distilled water. "
We are trying to find a "quick and easy" way for our students to learn
to culture carrot callus in our Plant Biotechnology class and find that
the carrot callus cultures we obtain from Carolina are not very
consistent, so they have charged me with finding a better method. I did
culture carrot callus eons ago in my undergraduate work, but that was
not always effective either....we actually did it on a desktop, since we
didn't have hoods.
Are you still using this method and find it still is working well? Have
you modified it to make it more efficient? Would you mind sharing the
method?
In your description, you used filter paper---did you sterilize this
prior to use?
I would appreciate any insight you can offer and will pass on the credit
and details to the professor of the class.
Thank you,
Jennifer Liedkie
Laboratory Specialist
Department of Biological Sciences
Rochester Institute of Technology
85 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623
585-475-4041
